Dagny

Where Dagny comes from

Dagny hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Dagny Juel born
    Norwegian writer, translator, playwright, poet, and artists' model
  2. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,437 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1901
    Peak, #918
    13 babies named Dagny — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,877.
  5. 1912
    Dagny Carlsson born
    Swedish blogger centenarian
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dagny Juel · Norwegian writer, translator, playwright, poet, and artists' model, 1867–1901
  • Dagny Carlsson · Swedish blogger centenarian, 1912–2022
  • Dagny · Norwegian singer-songwriter, born 1990
  • Dagny Servaes · German-Austrian actress, 1894–1961
  • Dagny Mellgren · Norwegian footballer, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.